silvered bronze and black and pebbled red enamels
featuring an Army eagle crossguard
and a Sweetheart Ring (two-piece construction
all reinforced with magnetic metal grommets
Paul-Adolphe Dieudonné Thiébault's lineage can be traced back one more generation: his maternal grandmother (Elizabeth "Betsy" Walker's mother) was the Scottish novelist Lady Mary Hamilton (May 8
Netherlands, Kingdom. A Royal Order Of Holland, Grand Cross Star, C.1880 Archive silvered bronze and black and(Orde van Holland). Established by Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, King of Holland, in 1806. Abolished in 1811. Type III (1806 1807). Of high quality manufacture, a superb napoleonic era decoration referred to as a later Bacqueville manufacture, consisting of a beaded eight pointed multiple rayed convex star in silver, the obverse exhibiting a detailed superposed crowned Dutch lion swimming on brave waves, surrounded by Orders motto DOE WEL EN ZIE NIET OM